The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1913. WHAT THE GENERAL STRIKE MEANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 51, 31 October 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1913. WHAT THE GENERAL STRIKE MEANS.

The Christchurch “Press” notes that the new Arbitration Bill introduced by the Government is attracting some attention abroad. In a brief editorial the New York “Post” considers it “a valuable example of legislation against the narraw selfishness of which labour unions are sometimes guilty.” “What more,” the “Post” asks,

should a workman wafH than, the right to declare a strike, have it passed on to an arbitration court, and go hack to work t” The “Press” continues ;—Our contemporary would perhaps he surprised if it knew how completely labour unions have defied the Act whenever it has suited them to do so, hut it has some observations on the general question which are worth the attention of those who know that the “Post” is. perhaps, the most thoughtful of the leading American newspapers. “Where there

is compulsory arbitration,” it says

“its impartial enforcement is imperajtive on grounds of sound ethics and sound economies. The feeling back o! the aggressions of the New Zealand (unions is a striking example of what

(Professor Smart has just denounced (in England ns the labourers’ irresponj si!ile view that their industry is not for the general good, but for the boneifit of the capitalists. Such a declarajfion lies behind the popular European i suggest ion for a universal strike—

[tantamount to a proposal that the I worker should stop feeding and eloth‘ing himself.”